One event that all gamers look forward to every year is the GDC Awards (Game Developers Choice Awards) which is held every year by the Game Developers Conference. This year it was hosted again by the head of Double Fine Productions, Tim Schafer. Right off the bat the awards began and crowned Red Dead Redemption with the Best Audio trophy.
As the evening progressed, Schafer continued by awarding Minecraft (Independent Games Festival Grand Prize winner) with the Best Debut trophy and awarded Mass Effect 2 (Interactive Achievement Awards Game of the Year) with the trophy for Best Writing.
Next on the list was Best Game Design and Red Dead Redemption took that away which added another trophy on the shelf of developer Rockstar San Diego. Minecraft was given another trophy for the Best Downloadable Game and also the Innovation Award which surprised the game co-creator Markus Persson to the point of no words.
The Xbox Live game Limbo won Best Visual Arts which happened to be a skit of the nerd-comedy troupe Mega64. Cut the Rope won the best Handheld Game created by ZeptoLab (which I have played and thoroughly enjoyed).
Alongside the competitive trophies, the GDCA also gives out honor such as the Pioneer Award. This year, the recipient of that award was Yu Suzuki who granted the GDC with a presentation earlier in the day. As for the lifetime achievement award, that went to Peter Molyneux who is the co-founder of Bullfrog Productions and Lionhead Studios who you should all know developed Fable.
To no surprise, Red Dead Redemption wasn't done with taking the awards by storm as they won the Best Technology award.
For the grand finale and the "most important award of the year", Rockstar San Diego's crew won Game of the year.
Here's a list of all of the nominees in their respected category and the winners of each:
Game of the Year
Winner: Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar San Diego)
Mass Effect 2 (BioWare)
Call of Duty: Black Ops (Treyarch)
Limbo (Playdead)
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Ubisoft Montreal)
Best Game Design
Winner: Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar San Diego)
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Nintendo)
Mass Effect 2 (BioWare)
Limbo (Playdead)
God of War III (SCE Santa Monica)
Innovation
Winner: Minecraft (Mojang)
Heavy Rain (Quantic Dream)
Kirby's Epic Yarn (Good-Feel & HAL Laboratory)
Limbo (Playdead)
Dance Central (Harmonix)
Best Technology
Winner: Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar San Diego)
Starcraft II (Blizzard)
Heavy Rain (Quantic Dream)
Mass Effect 2 (BioWare)
God of War III (SCE Santa Monica)
Best Handheld Game
Winner: Cut the Rope (ZeptoLab)
God of War: Ghost of Sparta (Ready At Dawn/SCE Santa Monica)
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (Kojima Productions)
Game Dev Story (Kairosoft)
Dragon Quest IX (Level 5)
Best Audio
Winner: Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar San Diego)
Limbo (Playdead)
Halo: Reach (Bungie)
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (DICE)
Mass Effect 2 (BioWare)
Best Downloadable Game
Winner: Minecraft (Mojang)
Costume Quest (Double Fine)
Limbo (Playdead)
Super Meat Boy (Team Meat)
Monday Night Combat (Uber Entertainment)
Best Writing
Winner: Mass Effect 2 (BioWare)
Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar San Diego)
Heavy Rain (Quantic Dream)
Costume Quest (Double Fine)
Fallout: New Vegas (Obsidian)
Best Debut Game
Winner: Minecraft (Mojang)
Limbo (Playdead)
Darksiders (Vigil Games)
Monday Night Combat (Uber Entertainment)
Super Meat Boy (Team Meat)
Best Visual Arts
Winner: Limbo (Playdead)
God of War III (SCE Santa Monica)
Call of Duty: Black Ops (Treyarch)
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Ubisoft Montreal)
Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar San Diego)
After reviewing the nominees and who won, there are a couple of games that should have won in certain categories rather than just handing it off to Red Dead Redemption.....oh well, politics in award shows.
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